Jet magazine, which first hit newsstands at the dawn of the civil rights era, is ceasing regular print publication and transforming into a digital app.
Johnson Publishing Co., which owns Jet along with Ebony magazine, says the switch will occur at the end of June. The Chicago-based company says the move is a proactive effort to adapt to its readers' growing desires for quicker and easier access to information.
Desiree Rogers, Johnson Publishing's CEO says the change will take the magazine back to its roots. She notes that Jet, which was founded by John Johnson in November 1951, was originally intended as a newsweekly digest for African-Americans living in an increasingly faster-paced world.
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In other words, they're bleeding money and are going to cut their losses by going digital. Staff will be cut, postage will go to near zero, printers won't print and readers will find a way to get it for free, if they're still interested in what little the magazine contributes to anyone.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine if a guy tried to start a magazine about ONLY white people! Or how about a TV network, or a Miss. White America pageant, or a United White college fund. They would be called a "Racist", and boycotted, loose his job, be banned from sports, oh, that's right, this only happens in a commie nation!
ReplyDeleteSecond that 6:04.
ReplyDeleteIt'll soon be time for the NAAWP, and white student unions!
It certainly is troubling to see how privileged black people are.
The TV show was HeeHaw, the magazine is The National Review and nobody looses their job but they might lose it if they don't know the difference.
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ReplyDeleteThe TV show was HeeHaw, the magazine is The National Review and nobody looses their job but they might lose it if they don't know the difference.
May 8, 2014 at 11:32 PM
Poor comeback.... Is that all you got?
@11:32 HeeHaw went off the air in 1997 and all the cast involved lost their jobs! Guess what they were smart enough to know it! Funny thing about HeeHaw though - they were told that the woman were too skantilly dressed! HA HA bring back HEEHAW compared to the HOOCHIE MAMA's on TV now!
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